Attachment for automobiles.



S. B. WHITE.

ATTACHMENT FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1912.

1,115,356, I Patented 0@1;.27,1914

SAMUEL 13. WHITE, OF GEORGETOWN, OHIO.

ATTACHMENT FOR AUTOMOBILES.

T all whom it mmoncem:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Georgetown, .in the county of Brown and State of Ohio,;. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to attachments for automobiles. In the operation of motor driven vehicles it frequently happens that the vehicle becomes stalled because of the slipping of the driving wheels on the roadway. This slipping is due either to a soft, slippery roadway or to a steep inclination as, for example, a bank along the side of the roadway. It has been proposed to start the vehicle and move it to a part of the road Where the drive Wheels Will take hold by mounting a drum on one of the drive wheels, attaching one end of a cable to the drum and carrying the other end of the cable to a point 1n advance of the drive wheel and securing the same to a fixed object, such as a stake driven into the ground or a post along the side of the road. Then when the drive wheels are rotated the cable will be wound upon the drum and the vehicle moved forward. Such a drum cannot well be at tached permanently-to the wheel because it projects too far beyond the same and in devices heretofore proposed the means for attaching the drum to the wheel has been cumbersome and diflicult of attachment, requiring in many, if not in all, instances the use of tools or implements. Y

The object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character which can be readily attached to and detached from thetraction wheel and this without the use of tools or implements of any kind; further, to construct and arrange the attachment devices in such a manner that the connection between the drum and the wheel will be a strong, durable one; and to so arrange the several parts that the drum will be well braced and have ample strength for its work.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure "1 is a plan view of a portion of an automobile fshowing the drum attached to the driving wheel and in o erative position; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectlonal view, taken centrally through the drum showing the same attached to a wheel; and Fig. 3 is a perspective Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. 2?, 1914..

Application filed December 30, 1912. Serial No. 739,178. I

view of the drum showing the attaching devices.

In these drawings I have illustrated one embodiment of the invention and have shown the drum at 1 as of the usual form and have attached thereto one end of a cable 2 which may be wound about the drum when the latter is rotated. It will be understood, however, that the drum may be of any suitable construction adapted to take up a flexible pulling member, such as the cable.

ln order that the drum may be quickly and easily attached to the spokes of a Wheel I have provided the drum with attachment devices which will engage the spokes of a wheel, as indicated at 3, and, when the wheel is rotated, firmly grip the spokes and cause the drum to rotate therewith. In the present instance these attachment de vices are hook-shaped inform, as indicated at 4, and are four in number. The devices are so arranged upon the drum 1 that they may be inserted between the spokes of the wheel and by giving the drum a short rotary movementmay be caused to grip the spokes and thus retain the drum firmly in position. As soon as the driving wheel begins to rotate the devices will be caused to still more strongly grip the spokes of the wheel and the greater the resistance oflered to the rotation of the drum the tighter will be the connection between the of the wheel. The shape of the attachment 3.

devices is such that when these are in engagement with the respective spokes the flanged end of the drum will be held snugly against the side of the wheel and the at tachment devices will prevent the drum from being pulled away from the wheel, as well as cause it to rotate therewith.

.The operation of the device will be understood from the foregoing description and it will be apparent that it is only necvto disengage the hook-shaped devices from their spokes. Further, it will be apparent that the construction of the device is-such that not only can the drum be attached to and detached from the wheel without the use of implements of any kind but that the construction of the drum and the attachment devices is such that they will not bind or become looked upon the wheel no matter how severe the strain to which they are subjected and, consequently, the drum can be readily removed at the end of any operation.

\Vhile I have shown and described one embodiment of my invention it will be understood that this has been chosen for the purpose of illustration only and that I do not desire to be limited to the details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, a drum having a central recess in one end thereof and fastening devices rigidly secured to said end of said drum at intervals about said recess and comprising short hook-shaped members projecting beyond said end of said drum and adapted to extend between the spokes of a wheel, said hook-shaped members being so constructed and arranged that the rotation of said drum about its longitudinal axis in one direction will cause said hook-shaped members to operatively engage the respective spokes of said wheel and retain the end of said drum into engagement with said wheel.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL B. WHITE.

Vitnesses: i

H. E. PARKER, A. W. MITCHELL. 

